Why don't they port the games onto the new console (in HD of course) and bundle them as 'Wii Extreme Sports' or whatever? So you'd have 1080 Avalanche as 'Wii Snowboarding', Wave Race Blue Storm as 'Jet Skii' or whatever, and I suppose Excitebike 64 would complete the set in the absence of a GC outing. Online features could be included too. I imagine this would address a fair few criticisms for much less economic outlay.

I still have my Gamecube set up and still play on it pretty rergularly. When I have friends over we have a few games of Mario Tennis, Smash Brothers Melee, Sega Soccer Slam, Double Dash and a few others besides. I am also currently part way through replaying Sunshine but getting a little frustrated by some of the more difficult Shines like that one on the little island in the hub world that you need to transport a Yoshi to by hopping on boats. Not only is the Shine itself a nightmare to earn just getting there is a major ball ache.

Spice Orange GameCube and Panasonic Q GameCube are my favourite designs of consoles of all time. The Japanese boxes and discs are the cutest and the GC gave us the best wireless controller of all time in the WaveBird